November 1 Essence of Time unit in Donbass report (with map)

Gorlovka part of the frontline is tense. Ukrainian artillery periodically shells northern outskirts of the city, explosions are heard in Zaytsevo village as well. Trench combat is registered in the area of Shyrokaya Balka south-west of Gorlovka.

Outskirts of Yasinovataya, Avdeevka industrial zone and Spartak village north of the capital, Trudovskie, Aleksandrovka and Staromikhailovka west of Donetsk remain to be hot spots. The enemy fired 122mm and 152mm artillery, as well as 82mm and 120mm mortars.

Sakhanka and Leninskoye villages in the south once again came under enemy artillery fire.

DPR recon informs that Ukrainian army militants, presumably foreign mercenaries, were housed in occupied Svyatogorsk town, in the orphan children social rehabilitation health center “Emerald City”.

According to updated information, on October 31 Ukrainian side shelled DPR territory over 755 times. Shelled were towns and villages on Gorlovka, Donetsk, Dokuchaevsk and Mariupol directions. Mostly 82mm mortars were fired. The enemy also fired 120mm mortars, 122mm and 152mm artillery, IFV and tank guns, grenade launchers, as well as small arms.